Finding a Missing Parent for Child Support

April 25, 2018
By
Jones Law Firm, PC

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Are you a parent whose former spouse has gone MIA and is not paying child
support? Or, perhaps you were never married to your child’s other
parent, but you have custody and he or she has not paid child support
in a long time. Either way, you haven’t heard from him or her in
some time and you haven’t received
child support in months,
if not years. What can you do? Is all hope lost?

Unfortunately, noncustodial parents, the ones who pay child support, disappear
all the time. They will get a new cellphone number and move, sometimes
to another state, and the custodial parent has no clue where they went.
The custodial parent may not have the sophisticated tools to track down
the noncustodial parent, but that doesn’t mean they don’t
exist, because they do.

How Can a Missing Parent Be Located?

“Help! My former spouse isn’t paying child support and I cannot
locate him (or her).” If this is happening to you, a child support
attorney can help. While there is no guarantee that the noncustodial parent
will be found, enlisting your local Child Support Enforcement (CSE) agency
can make all the difference. Unlike parents, CSE agencies can access local,
state and federal information to find out where a noncustodial parent
is living and working.

You can help CSE find the missing parent by giving them the following types
of information about your child’s other parent:

Name

Birth date

Mother’s name

Father’s name

Social Security number

Picture of the other parent

Their last known home and work address

Their last known cellphone number

The names and locations of other children

Other names the parent has used in the past

Social Security numbers are extremely helpful when it comes to finding
missing parents. If you don’t know the other parent’s Social
Security number, look to their: paycheck stubs, apartment rental applications,
tax returns, W2s and 1099s, hospital admission papers, and credit applications.
Any financial information may be helpful, such as bank account info, insurance
papers, pension information, and copies of stocks and bonds.

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